Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

—– The Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference takes place Febrary 28-March 2 in Austin, TX, and I’m SO honored to be a keynote speaker! “Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. The top 100 vote getters got $25K each, then competed for the $1 million grand prize, with 2nd-6th place getting $100K each. The Chase Community Challenge started with an open nomination round.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

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Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

But, are proposal based approaches good for finding people who are going to start new things? We do this through scouting and in the weekends as they are high pressure and fund and collaborative so you can really, really see how people work. Rather than having standard business advice but a place where they can experiment.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. The top 100 vote getters got $25K each, then competed for the $1 million grand prize, with 2nd-6th place getting $100K each. The Chase Community Challenge started with an open nomination round.

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Contest Charity Childhood Nonprofit 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. It’s really worth a read.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you give us a logic model or a theory of change format, we work hard to not only embrace your words but to put them in the right rows and columns. Nonprofits are preoccupied with writing what the funder wants to read or hear, and foundations are compliant with proposal templates that change little over years or even decades.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

Seeing you leave a comment, or share a resource, will model the desired behavior so others can see what to do (especially if they are new to social media or new to your community) and how to do it (especially if they are new to your tool or platform). you are interested in collaborating (not dictating). There are no short cuts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model?

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

To encourage investigation at the level of *system* rather than the isolated individual issues that get funders' attention, she proposes building a simplified conceptual model for health data that will help students, funders, and researchers--and the general public, too--gain greater insight into systemic data collection issues and solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Karin Pritikin, who I met in Chicago in June and works for  Health & Medicine Policy Research Group , reached out to me to share some of the "hallway conversations" taking place in her organization about movements and social media.   In the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s action took place at meetings and demonstrations.

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Facebook Illinois Learning Policy 69

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning.

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So this board was in place, but then it was a little bit aimless for some time. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . But her business model is all about generosity, all about offering.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? It was organized by Ed Schipul. What is it?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

guidance for any federal agency that uses social media services to collaborate and communicate among employees, partners, other federal agencies, and the public.? and proposes the creation of an overarching government wide policy on social media. Just last week, the council released ? intended to provide ?guidance

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

That's where dancing takes place. Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. Gaming is testing ideas, proposing solutions, and moving through the system. Kids are collaboratively working together to build a tale. They make up improvisational dancing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2009

We are using a hybrid unconference/workshop model in which participants work collaboratively to explore and brainstorm a few pre-selected "wild ideas" for future museum initiatives related to audience participation. To keep it manageable, we'll select just a few project proposals on which to focus the workshop.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. Come on, get real already.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. Why are museums the right place to become the physical substantiation of the social Web?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Not only was Second Life a comfortable, familiar place for them to engage, it was a place where my authority as the museum exhibit designer came down a notch and we became individuals bringing different skills to the table. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Guide the environment management plan and release strategies for projects, validating that the correct development environments, change controls, and deployment plans are in place.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And these are the kinds of places where, typically, your marketing and communications team has oversight or ownership. Nor, I would argue, should most organizations even be known by everybody in the first place. They are the people who often control and direct your email marketing or your website or your social media. People people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. Do you accept everything or is there curation? (3)

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, if your program has an evidence-based model, and I’m not just saying. Grant proposals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Regular Beneblog readers will know most of this, but it's always handy to pull it together all in one place. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. As many folks know, I try to send out quarterly updates on what's new at Benetech.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

I moved two years after, when I was 2, but still a special place in my heart. They can feel really confusing and really burdensome, especially if you don’t have a game plan or a process in place. . So funder websites are usually the very best place to start. I’m excited to see more Chicagoans in the chat.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. that is experimenting with high tech balloons to supply Internet in remote places. The World Wide Web Turns 25. This 25 th.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Is this a place where staff members are comfortable taking risks? Part of me wonders whether the organization was actually built to "sustain" anything (it may have been a deliberately unsustainable business model). Empty promises about collaboration, risk-taking, or permission to fail are far more dangerous than no promises at all.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Well, actually, why are we looking for grant funding in the first place? Well, oftentimes places of employment. So it may be places you work, your colleagues work, or the bank that you go to. I wrote this one just a month or two ago about what to do with unsolicited proposals. So first of all, the very bad news.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum outlined the three pillars of open government thereby narrowing the discussion to transparency, participation, and collaboration. In collaboration with governmental and nongovernmental, the Department of State should develop an integrated "acquisition and procurement" platform for international disaster response.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

They generally have several core functions that work well: collecting, reviewing, and revising ideas and proposals; voting on proposals; and reporting outcomes. And they make participation more accessible by creating easier opportunities for people to engage at times and in places and languages that work for them.

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